The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-26


GEORGIA
Griffin is to have gymnasium.
Bowersville is to have a new hotel
The Augusta Gun Club has received new
lot of traps
Most of the Albany lawyers have gone to
Baker court.
The Toccoa Knights of Honor gave pic
mic yesterday.
The Augusta Masons are preparing plans
for their new temple.
The Atlanta tax assessors books show an
increase of 81, 600, 900.
Dr. John Walker, prominent citizen of
Butler, died Sunday.
The Tennille dry goods stores close at 6
o'clock in the evening.
A small party of Atlanta people will
visit Nashville on May q.
One hundred and eleven people registered
at the Rome Hotel Sunday.
Albany is great city for "bores." Two
more artesian wells are to be bored at once
East Point wants a $50, 900 hotel and will
offer good inducements to the right party.
AS soon as the new moon appears, moon
light picnics will be all the rage in Atlanta.
Watermelons have appeared in the At
lanta market. The prices range from T5c.
to 81 each.
The Washington Rifles, of Sandersville,
reorganized with forty members strong on
Friday last
An attempt was made to burglarize the
store of Mr.. Thomas Green at Elba on Sat
urday night.
John Stokely, of Crawford, says the rats
have destroyed seventy-five bushels of corn
for him this year.
There is negro preacher at Crawford who
has no legs, being hauled around town in
wagon by two goats
Thirteen saloonkeepers were before the
Augusta Recorder Monday, charged with
selling liquor on Sunday.
Maj w. G. P. Cleghorn and Mr.. Uriah
Collum are the only pensioners in Schley
county of the Mexican war of 1916.
Ben L. Jones, of East Macon, is the
youngest Knight Templar in the State. He
is only rs years old, but is away up in
Masonry.
A strong effort is being made to induce
Gov. Gordon to commute the sentence of
the murderer of Holman, of Dalton, to i'm
prisonment for life.
On June the Atlanta ticket offices of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail-
road and the Richmond and Danville rail
road will be consolidated.
The Notaries commissioned Monday were:
1,260th district and B. A. Arnold, 736th
district, all of Douglass county.
Ezekiel Martin was arrested on a bench
warrant, in Habersham county, on Satur-
day by Deputy Marshal Mcdonald He was
taken to Atlanta and gave bond.
Sam Jones lectures Thursday night at the
Opera House at Dalton, for the benefit of
the new Methodist Church, the proceeds to
be devoted to buying chairs for it.
w. H. Cobb has been commissioned Cap
tain of the Gainesville Volunteers, new
company The arms and accoutrements
were sent that company Monday evening.
The colored people of Atlanta had big
picnic Monday at Moore's mill, on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad.
There were nine passenger coaches crowded.
Ordinary Calhoun, of Atlanta, is busy
sending out notices to executors, admins
TRAITORS, guardians and trustees to file their
annual returns on or before the first Monday
in July next.
Gov Gordon has received from the Gov
crnor of South Carolina list of the dele
gates appointed to represent the State in
the Interstate Agricultural Convention.
They number $50.
Gainesville can boast of some of the finest
chickens in the State. On last Saturday
morning Uncle Dick Chatham shipped five
pullets mot a year old to Atlanta that
weighed 80 pounds.
A detachment of the Salvation Army is
headed for Albany. They will not stay
long if the people let them pass when they
pass round the hat. Perhaps, however,
Albany needs them.
There is some talk of starting a guano
factory at Columbia. 1t would be big
paying investment from the start, and keep
hundreds of thousands of dollars there that
go elsewhere every year.
Monday morning in Orchard Hill Mrs.
Jacob M. Wise departed this Life, after an
illness of only few days. She was a most
estimable lady, and has large circle of
friends to mourn her loss
j. J. Kimball, who lives five miles west of
Douglasville, has fine field of wheat. The
samples show twenty-one mashes TO the head
and five grains to the mash, which will
average los grains to the head.
Col John R. Towers, principal keeper of
the penitentiary, who has been considerably
indisposed for some time past is rapidly
convalescing and expects soon to be able to
attend to the duties of his office.
Dalton has an excellent free school sys-
tenn lasting ten months A nice two-story
frame building has been erected at cost
of 81, 900 for the colored children. This
speaks we'll for the chief city Of Whitfield
county.
EuOrCS are DelnR maze Dy FOSumaSUel
Burnett to have the Athens Office raised tC
a second class one The business is steadily
on the increase, and the postmaster hopes tc
make such a showing before the authorize:
as to induce the change.
The Clinch Rifles, of Augusta, have re-
ceived and accepted the invitation of the
Piedmont exposition to participate in the
October military fair. The Clinches will
enter the competitive drill. They are drill
ing twice day for Che occasion.
The members of the Douglas County Sun
day School Association are earnestly re
quested to meet at the picnic at Douglasvill,
next Friday. Business of Importance is to b,
transacted. Let every school in the county
that belong to the association be represented
Brunswick appeal: The colored ministers
of the Baptist Convention took an excursion
around the bay yesterday, and left for then
respective homes last evening and this morn
ing They were, without doubt, the finest
looking body of colored men that have over
visited this city.
While a crowd Of negro boys were play.
ing in the streets Of Augusta Monday,
throwing missiles, etc, one of them struck
a companion on the head with the sharp leg
of an old compass, the point penetrating &c
the brain and causing instant death. No ar.
rests were made.
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